Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:53PM
from the that's-not-so-hot dept.

sciencehabit better let Greg Dean know that "Two weeks ago, U.S.-based astronomers announced the discovery of the first Goldilocks planet circling another star: just the right size and just the right temperature to harbor alien life. But yesterday at an exoplanet meeting in Turin, Italy, Switzerland-based astronomers announced that they could find no trace of the prized planet in their observations of the same planetary system."

US astronomers used their published data (henceforth called 'A') and the Swiss published data (henceforth called 'B'). The Swiss used their published data B and their unpublished data (henceforth called 'C'). So we've tested A+B and B+C. We'll see what the deal is when we can do A+B+C...

He's been pretty successful at trolling on/. recently, getting lots of responses despite being both wildly off-topic and making no effort to disguise the trolling. Not posting as AC is apparently enough to get other users to respond to even obvious trolls.